The University of British Columbia

Assistant Professor

Kenichi Takahata

Kenichi Takahata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UBC, as well as a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Micro/Nanofabrication and MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems). He received is BS in physics from Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, in 1990 and his MS and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, in 2004 and 2005, respectively. He was a Visiting Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, from 1999 through 2001.

Dr. Takahata held various industrial research positions for over ten years at Panasonic in Japan as well as 3M in USA before joining UBC. His research focuses on a broad range of fabrication and packaging in the micro and nano domains and their application to MEMS and other micro/nanomachined devices. Details of his work can be found in his website linked above.

Research Areas

• Biomedical Technologies
• Emerging Micro/Nano Technologies

Research Groups

• Microsystems and Nanotechnology (MiNa)

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